`23 lakh transferred from retired DRDO official’s account, 2 arrested

Two former delivery boys were arrested for allegedly transferring around `23 lakh from the account of a retired DRDO official in southeast Delhi’s Amar Colony area, police said on Tuesday. They have been identified as Sandeep Kumar (24), a resident of Tughlakabad Extension, and Jitender Kumar (19), a resident of East of Kailash, they said.

According to police, an 80-year-old retired DRDO officer lodged a complaint about two fraudulent bank transactions from his account to the tune of `23 lakh. During investigation, police analysed

During investigation, police analysed the victim’s account and found that `22,92,000 was fraudulently debited

the victim’s account and found that `22,92,000 was fraudulently debited to the account of Sandeep, a senior police officer said. On October 23, police raided the house of Sandeep and arrested him, said Chinmoy Biswal, DCP (Southeast).

On his instance, Jitender was also nabbed from Garhi village last week, he said. Interrogation revealed that Jitender’s brother Dharmender was the mastermind. He hatched the plan with Ghyansham, who used to work as driver of the victim, and roped in Jitender, Sandeep, Shravan and Rajesh, the DCP said. Ghyansham provided the bank details of his owner to Dharmender. He took the victim’s mobile phone on the pretext of helping him and provided the OTP to Dharmender.

Dharmender transferred the money through online banking from the victim’s account to the account of Sandeep, police said. Police recovered `35,000 and one motorcycle from their possession and seized `15 lakh in various bank accounts, they said.